Gas-range utensil for toasting bread, &amp;c.



No. 702,489. Patented lune I7, I902.

I. .m. SCHERER.

GAS RANGE UTENSIL FOR TOASTING BBEAD,- 8L0.

(Application filed Feb. 20, 1902.

(No Model.)

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THE uonms PETERS cuJHoTa-uma, WASHINGTON o. c:

UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IDA MINA SCHERER,- OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAS-RANGE UTENSlL FOR TOA S T'ING BREAD, 84.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 702,489,dated June 17, 1902.

Application filed February 20, 1902. Serial No; 94,891. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that (I, IDA MINA SCHERER, a

citizen of the United, States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have'in-- vented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Range Utensilsfor Toasting Bread and Making Waffles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a device for application to agas=range fortoasting bread and making waffles inwhich the device for effecting the toasting onboth sides of the bread.

and waffle-making-may be readily turned for browning both surfaces by the handle of the appliance without burning'the fingers as well as the toasted bread andwaffles as made therein removed-without necessarily removing the toasting and waffle-making device or appliance from the gas-range. r

The nature and characteristic features of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, inwhich 1 Figure 1 is a perspective-view of a skeleton frame with its toaster orwaiiie-making device embodying the features ofmy invention in operative position. ,Fig. 2 is a top or plan View, partly broken away," of the same. 3 is a top or plan view ofa toaster of my said invention, and Fig. is a vertical sectional view through the device on the line of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, Ais a circular skeleton frame consisting of the tubular bottom ring a, the series of tubular supports a, and top tubular ring a which: is indented at a and a opposite each other for respectively receiving and supporting the grooved portion of the hinged projections or pin'tles' bof the toaster or wafie -ironB and the grooved portion I) of the two-part handlelfi. The toaster 0r waffle-iron Bmay be made with small projections thereimas in Fig. 2, for waffle-mak- Fig,-

ing or in grid form as in Fig. 3, for breadtoasting. In either'case the device is constructedof two parts hinged or pivoted together at thebackpintle b, the handle b be-. ing divided horizontally. The top ring of the skeleton frame A is provided with projections orbufiers c and c on opposite sides of the said ring for permittingia lug b of the device B bearing on either the'buffer or projection c or c of the top-ring of said frame, while at the same time not interfering with the free turn-- ing or revolving of the toasting or waffle malb' ing device B by the handlefor browning the respective surfaces of the bread. or waffle being toasted or bro'wnedinthe said device B.

.The handle 12 may be covered with a non-heatconducting material to per'mit'of handling ofthe same whilethe utensil is on the range without burning the fingers.

Having thusde'scribed the nature and object of' my invention, what I claim as new,

anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, isl ;ing in,-andrigi dly secured to both rings, the rings and supports being so arranged that no openings are formed into which dirt or grease may enter,"substantia1ly as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses. 1

IDA MINA SOHEREB.

Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

